Science Fiction Stories

These four-and-twenty stories, though not by any means of equal merit, reach, on the whole, a good level of excellence. "The Chemistry of Anarchy" is in particular a capital tale. A young man entangles himself in some Anarchist plots, and is delivered by a scientific friend who finally frightens the revolu- tionists out of their wits. Somewhat resembling this is "A New Explosive." The recipient of a terrible secret thinks it best that secret and inventor should disappear together...

It was a nasty plot Vyrko was involved in. The worst part was that he constructed it himself--and didn't get the end right!

Arthur Granger, an aristocratic and unsuccessful novelist, betrays the ideals he prides himself on for the unrequited love of a young woman. And no ordinary woman, she, but an ethereal, goddess-like, nameless agent from a strange world.

After years of sibling rivalry with her dog-loving brother, Sarah illegally gene-edits her cat Rocky to never sleep, unleashing a feline that begins quietly consolidating power over the neighborhood, the country, and the world. Caution: Animals were harmed in this story.

a Message Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch;Being a true and faithful account of her Journey to the Interior of the Earth, with a careful description of the Country and its Inhabitants,their Customs, Manners and Government.

It is no use. It's too late. The earth--I must dig--alone.

"The Blindman's World" spins an intriguing tale of an astronomer whose life changes forever when his powers of observation begin to fade.

"I'd give a year off my life to...." Idle talk now, but it was ghastly reality to Kent!

Readers are presented with the Project summary for global wide suppression of military assets by means of AI controlled alien technology

What a wife! Pretty, smart. and when she cooked it was just out of this world!